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Title: The network commons and the city as project and Utopia

Authors: Armin Medosch

Addresses: Deceased, formerly of: Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract: The network commons is a techno-utopian project which proposes an alternative, social use of technology. Together with other initiatives, it could form a nucleus of a socially transformative project – a potentially worldchanging force based on commoning practices arising from within global society. In order to avoid the mistake of internet utopianism of the 1990s, I propose to place the network commons and the larger commons movement in the context of a discourse on the city as utopia and project. In order to develop a new project and utopia we need to understand and respond to the new capitalist logic of network society and how it has reshaped the city.

Keywords: network commons; commoning; urbanism; Fordism; network society.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2018.093834

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2018 Vol.10 No.2, pp.120 - 137

Accepted: 16 Feb 2018
Published online: 06 Aug 2018 *